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How California Can Help Students
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
4.29.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - Testing is critical in determining the academic preparedness of students entering higher education. For instance, the California State University uses placement exams to determine if students require remedial English or math in order to have the skills necessary to complete their coursework successfully. Yet, no test is used to determine the skill levels of the many more students who opt for vocational education at community colleges. There is a test, however, that can fill that void and it would be cost-free to students and colleges.
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Rethinking Health Care Communications to Consumers Europe (pdf)
Health Care Presentation
By: Peter J. Pitts
4.25.2005
Ordinary Americans are the fastest growing readership segment of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Consumers now follow developments in medicine with the same close attention that they follow the ebbs and flows of their mutual funds. and, hopefully, with better results. Better health care information, and health literacy, are allowing consumers to make smarter choices about their health care, and in turn, lead healthier lives.
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Ipso Fatso, Part Trois: The Epidemic
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.20.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - California's ruling class has determined that the state's residents are too fat and it wants to use the legislative process to slim them down. This has happened before but this time we are really in trouble, according to Dr. Richard Jackson, the state's public health officer.
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Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2005 Report
PRI Study
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D, Michael De Alessi, Joel Schwartz
4.19.2005
This tenth edition of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators is a good time to take stock of progress over the last decade. When the Index was launched, there were few efforts to develop environmental indicators or report trends in a useful way for the media or the public. Now there are dozens of worthy efforts in the public and private sector, many of them highly detailed and most available on the Internet. (An inventory of 86 Internet-accessible indicator sets is included in this edition.) As often as not, these efforts reveal how much we don’t know about environmental conditions and trends, and point to the need to fill in the large gaps in our understanding.
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Don't Tax My iPod
ePolicy
4.15.2005
Today is tax day, but those who think this expensive event only comes once a year should examine monthly phone bills and beware of recent actions by greedy bureaucrats.
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No Statute of Limitations on State Greed
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.13.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - The federal government maintains a 10-year limit on collection of federal taxes but California has no such statute of limitations. That is why the state Franchise Tax Board is hounding Marilyn Bowles, a 78-year-old widow in Riverside County, for $25,456.99.
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Freeing California from Fiscal Irresponsibility
By: Anthony P. Archie
4.6.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - As tax day approaches, Californians can ponder two initiatives that supporters claim will fix the state's fiscal problems. One has a better chance of delivering the goods than the other.
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Sex, Lies, and Sociology
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.4.2005
From California’s capital city comes the latest chapter in the gender chronicles, a real stunner.
On February 19, Sacramento police arrested Margaret De Barraicua, a 30-year-old intern teacher at McClatchy High School, for having sex with a 16-year-old student in her car. The teacher’s two-year-old son was strapped into a safety seat in the back at the time. On top of all that, the vehicle was parked outside of an elementary school at the time of the arrest. It was not the first sexual encounter between the two.
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Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE) Earns California Golden Fleece Award
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Kevin Dayton
4.1.2005
Suppose California taxpayers had given the California Chamber of Commerce $25 million since 2000 to improve its membership recruitment and produce phony “studies” backing its priority legislation. One would expect outraged state legislators to single out this kind of unnecessary government spending as an obvious budget cut to reduce multi-billion-dollar budget deficits.
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A Lethal Guardian: The Canadian Government's Ban on Prescription Drugs
By: John R. Graham
4.1.2005
When any new drug is invented and ready for distribution in Canada, the Canadian government responds by enforcing an automatic ban on its use. This ban is removed for patients who need the drug immediately only under extraordinary circumstances. The general ban is only lifted after the manufacturer has paid a user fee and waited for Health Canada to undertake a lengthy review to certify the safety and efficacy of the medicine. This ban is harmful to Canadians’ health and is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of Canadians annually
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